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Just a FYI. If you are doing a clean install on a Dell PowerEdge 2600 and you see an unknown device in the device manger that says: PE/PV 1×6 SCSI BP SCSI Processor Device.

That is your “Back Panel” SCSI controller. You can locate this on dell’s website under the category SCSI non-RAID Controllers

I had a client today who’s computer would not boot into Windows. They had a Dell OptiPlex when they started up the computer they would receive this error:

“Previous attempts at booting this system have failed at
checkpoint [USBd].”

Facts:

During troubleshooting I turned the printer off before and during startup and both option allowed to me to boot into Windows, with no problems. This is what lead me to believe the computer was looking at the memory card reader on the printer for a boot option.

Solution:

I asked if they had any new hardware. They said they had recently installed a printer. I took a look at the printer and it had the memory card reader built in. The BIOS had a setting called “USB emulation” and it was set to enable. I disabled the USB emulation and set the boot sequence to the local hard drive. The computer no longer looked at the printer for a boot option and booted correctly.

My buddy brought over a laptop that had vista pre installed from the gateway. He needed to put XP on it.

For some reason Gateway drivers always seem to stand out to me the most, because of the trouble we have trying to get things installed. We found a website that has all the xp drivers you need.

If you need the drivers they are located here

Today I ran across a Dimension 8400 that would not recognizes the SATA hard drive for a reformat. I did some digging and came up with two different problems.

1. If you don’t have your resource CD then you will need to first download the drivers for the SATA raid controller. Click here!
You will need to get a blank floppy and run the .exe program you downloaded from Dell. Run that and it will create a floppy disk with the drivers for you.
2. Go into your bios and change the mode of your SATA controller to a mode called “combination”.
3. Reboot and boot from your windows CD.
4. Press the {F6} key to install the SCSI drivers.
5. Press the {S} key for specific drivers.
6. Insert the diskette pick the first driver by hitting enter and finish the installation
7. The rest of the install of windows is normal.

Key Notes: You must change the sata controller in bios to “combination” or you install will never see the drive.